If you feel edgy/have a busy brain/struggle to switch off, doing slow rhythmic movements is a very effective way to relieve stress AND to stop thinking/over-analysing by remaining focused on your body.
Maintaining a single-minded focus on the rotational movements ‘around your spine’ will help balance your nervous system and your brain chemicals and make you feel energised yet calm.

These videos show adapted qigong movement sequences demonstrating simple rotational and circular movements that serve to sooth your nervous system and to calm your heart and your mind.

The aim is for you to ‘teach’ your mammalian brain how to co-ordinate the movement sequence without ‘top-down’ control by your primate brain so that your mammalian brain can eventually execute the entire sequence without thinking (video 3).
This is similar to children at play who are effectively training their mammalian brains how to do complex movement sequences without thinking.

Dr Laurie Rauch - neurobiologist by profession, specialising in the brain-heart connection.